using subsitute (ie replace text) command on multiple files
Alan
the files. do 'vim *.*' (w/o the quotes of course), then map a
key, say, z as ':map z :%s/hello/good by/g<C-v><C-m>:w<C-v><C-
m>:n<C-v><C-m>Z' along with the mapping ':map Z z'
Note :
1. No undo for this operation possible. Though a repeat of the
above commands with the reversal of the search patterns could be
done.
2. would work faster if ':syn off' is done.
3. <C-v> is ctrl+v.
4. <C-m> is ctrl+m.
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leon
was just wondering - suppose i want to replace "hello" with "good by"
in ALL of the files contained in a certain directory.
is it possibel with vim?!
With best regards - Leon.
Ralf Arens
> was just wondering - suppose i want to replace "hello" with "good by"
> in ALL of the files contained in a certain directory.
> is it possibel with vim?!
Yes. Alan posted one solution, you can also use a function like this
one:
,----[ AllBuffers.vim ]
| " File: AllBuffers.vim
| "
| " Purpose: execute a command in all buffers
| "
| " Author: Ralf Arens
| " Last Modified: 2000-03-10 13:08:40 CET
|
|
| " AllBuffers(...)
| " executes a command in all buffers
| " attention: command has to be quoted,
| " e.g. :call AllBuffersDo("%s,foo,bar")
| fun! AllBuffers(cmnd)
| let cmnd = a:cmnd
| let i = 1
| while (i <= bufnr("$"))
| if bufexists(i)
| execute "buffer" i
| execute cmnd
| let i = i+1
| endif
| endwhile
| endfun
|
|
| " vim:set noet:ts=8:sw=8:sts=8
`----
To save all buffers use ":wqa".
Ciao,
Ralf
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leon
>
> Go to the command prompt, and then to the directory containing
> the files. do 'vim *.*' (w/o the quotes of course), then map a
> key, say, z as ':map z :%s/hello/good by/g<C-v><C-m>:w<C-v><C-
> m>:n<C-v><C-m>Z' along with the mapping ':map Z z'
>
perhaps it is a bit off topic - but just seems rather compilcated -
would anyone know if there is a text utility (ala grep) except which can
not only find the needed text but also replace it?!
James Hu
>Alan wrote:
>> [create a map]
>perhaps it is a bit off topic - but just seems rather compilcated -
>would anyone know if there is a text utility (ala grep) except which can
>not only find the needed text but also replace it?!
How about ed?
$ (echo %s/old/new ; echo w ; echo q) | ed file1 file2 file3
will change all occurrences of old into new in files file1 file2 file3.
-- James
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leon
yeah - but as far as i understand it is for Unix?
I had a dos thing in mind ;-)
Jürgen Krämer
>
> perhaps it is a bit off topic - but just seems rather compilcated -
> would anyone know if there is a text utility (ala grep) except which
> can not only find the needed text but also replace it?!
perl -p -i -e 's/hello/good by/g' *
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Walter Prager
>
> Alan wrote:
> >
> > Go to the command prompt, and then to the directory containing
> > the files. do 'vim *.*' (w/o the quotes of course), then map a
> > key, say, z as ':map z :%s/hello/good by/g<C-v><C-m>:w<C-v><C-
> > m>:n<C-v><C-m>Z' along with the mapping ':map Z z'
> >
>
> would anyone know if there is a text utility (ala grep) except which can
> not only find the needed text but also replace it?!
Try 'sed' (Stream EDit). The only problem is that it is a filter, meaning
that you cannot redirect its output into its input. You have to do changes in
two stages -- first filter the input file into a temp file, then replace the
input file with the temp file. For example:
foreach f(<list of files to change>)
cat $f | sed 's/foo/bar/g' > ${f}.temp
mv ${f}.temp $f
end
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Ralf Arens
> Search www.freshmeat.net for 'replace'.
Why?
> Thanh
> In article <esrla8...@ralf.dyndns.org>,
> ralf....@tu-clausthal.de (Ralf Arens) wrote:
[...]
Ciao,
Ralf
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> leon wrote:
> >
> > Alan wrote:
> > >
> > > Go to the command prompt, and then to the directory containing
> > > the files. do 'vim *.*' (w/o the quotes of course), then map a
> > > key, say, z as ':map z :%s/hello/good by/g<C-v><C-m>:w<C-v><C-
> > > m>:n<C-v><C-m>Z' along with the mapping ':map Z z'
> > >
> >
> > perhaps it is a bit off topic - but just seems rather compilcated -
> > would anyone know if there is a text utility (ala grep) except which can
> > not only find the needed text but also replace it?!
>
> Try 'sed' (Stream EDit). The only problem is that it is a filter, meaning
> that you cannot redirect its output into its input. You have to do changes in
> two stages -- first filter the input file into a temp file, then replace the
> input file with the temp file. For example:
>
> foreach f(<list of files to change>)
> cat $f | sed 's/foo/bar/g' > ${f}.temp
> mv ${f}.temp $f
> end
You can also use perl to get rid of the temp file:
for f in <files> ; do
perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/g' $f
done
this will do a inplace edit and create backup files with a .bak
extension for your old files.
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Mil
I changed all the password's in my PHP files with it.
perl -p -i -e 's/password1/password2/g' *.inc
Thanks Jurgen,
your the shit!